Axel Weidauer

Axel Weidauer assisted on productions at Oper Frankfurt from 2001 - 2008 and is now a free-lance director. He enjoyed great success here in 2007/08 with a new production of Janáčeks The Adventures of Mr Brouček. Equally successful was his Oper Frankfurt production of Britten’s Curlew River in the Bockenheimer Depot. This production was performed at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw in 2005 and revived in Frankfurt in 2006/07. He also directed Offenbach’s one act opera Ein Ehemann vor der Tür/A Husband at the Door (2004 in the Holzfoyer) and Benjamin Britten’s The Golden Vanity (Bockenheimer Depot) for the company. Before joining Oper Frankfurt in 1999 Axel Weidauer assisted on productions at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim. He was born in Heidelberg and studied in Hamburg with Götz Friedrich.